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v VI 1, shall be taken thirty leagues in.
TO tn the interior and there set free '' ~
The third preseribes a brana G..
ca1tie and the restoration of stolen
The fourth is a more de6nito ocroo
ment to restore in kind and Nv ra1,,o
properly destroyed Or captured by men
present on either bank in violation ,l nf
the neutrality law. 'ion VI
Inc n1th 10 q secret clause, and aprees
10 ,he extradltlon of all persons CHARGED
WIN forgery, murder, embezzlement
and kindred crimes, and permits ill.,
entry OF forces from either side To tba
other for the pursuit and cantnro n ~
such offenders. ''uie VI
me correspondence discloses that in
q few days General Bee invoked tho
aid OF Governor Lopez to arrest y
Captain Sanders, who had stolen ~ zoo
from his regimental funds and crossod
over the river. The request 10 5,,lS.
acknowledged and due diligence prom.
lsed IN detecting the absconder's where
abouts. The subscriptions to onez,
letters all read: Liberty and reform
Done at Heroic Matamoras this -
day." '--'
General Bee, in his letter Of 1884
transmitting his correspondence :,
Washington, states that this treaty an.
abied MN to preserve order among his
forces and prevented Mon organizn.
ton to great degree in Mata,noras.
But on March 70, 1868, there occur
red series of events in the way q
bitter collisions, kidnapinrs and lvncb
ing. From the headquarters in Browns
VILE could be heard the threats and
taunts OF Union mon in Matamoras Al
tour clock in the morning band OF
SIXTY rebels crossed the river, sur.
rounded the Custom House, under the
leadership of Colonel Chiffon, and de.
manded Colonel Edmund j. Davis. He
was arrested and taken down the river
some twenty miles. Colonel Mont.
gomery was kidnapped elsewhere and
hanged. orez at once INTERVIEWED to
save the life OF Davis. Ho resents the
meurslon OF the Confederates and de-
mands the release of Ia is. Promptly
Zee responds. He disclaims all knowi-
edge OF the intended capture and
pledge the release when the prisoner
can be found. Davis is found and re-
stored to Mexican soil Colonel Davis
mad been District Judge in Texas.
lie was then o Union soldier and be-
came brigadier general. His kid
naplng was on account of his efforts to
recruit Federal soldiers on Mexican
sou. Afterward he presided, during
reconstruction, over the Constitutional
Convention Of Texas, and was elected
Governor of Texas in 1869 as Radical
Republican by the indispensable as
sistance of the army. Afterward Davis
attempted to hold the Governorship,
though the now Senator Coke had been
elected. President Grant, however,
had refused an appeal for troops.
Davis is now deceased. His widow re-
sides somewhere in Louisiana. Lopez.
the Governor of Tamaulipas, was killed
in the streets of Matamoras, when the
ill-starred Macmillan dynasty was i'm
posed upon Mexico.
There is personal romance in this
lost page of history. General Bee
still lives in San Antonio, Texas. He
was Commissioner of Statistics at one
time, but the Office was abolished. He
Is broken in fortune, and for years was
relentlessly pursued by the friends of
Colonel Davis on account of the cap
ture. They were lifelong friends un-
til that event. General Bee seems
anxious to have this correspondence
printed, for it indisputably estab-
fishes the fact that at the very time
he disclaimed authorizing the arrest
and all knowledge of it. But his
prompt release of Davis availed him
not. 1t was always credited to others
and Bee assailed with the charge that
but hair separated Davis from Mont
gomery's fate. The affair produced a
feud and not yet has there been for
giveness.
Mr.. John Hay, who is writing life
of Lincoln as q coad;ut with John
G. Nicolay, inspected the Pickett col
lection of diplomatic papers of the
Southern Confederacy at the office of
General Marcus J. Wright the other
day. These are, in fact, copies of the
originals, and are owned by Colonel
Pickett's widow. The originals are in
the Treasury Department., though the
State Department wants them, and,
naturally one would presume, should
have them. But the Treasury Depart
mant Maid S75 ono for them